The Right of
Aesthetic Realism
to Be Known

The Right Of (TRO) is the biweekly international periodical of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, published since 1973. It explains what is happening in the world, and in people—in you. It contains essays, poems, and lectures by Eli Siegel and articles by Aesthetic Realism teachers and students. In every issue there is an editorial commentary by Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education. With scholarship and humanity, she has continued Mr. Siegel’s work, together with many others.

Current Issue

Is It the Real Thing?

Issue #2149, November 20, 2024

Ellen Reiss, editor

Ellen Reiss is the Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education, appointed by Eli Siegel. The editor of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, she also teaches the professional classes for Aesthetic Realism consultants and associates….more

The Arts

“Aesthetic Realism sees the purpose of art as, from the beginning, the liking of the world more…”

Economics

Why our economic system has failed to meet the needs of the American people, and the Aesthetic Realism understanding of good will as the basis for successful and fair economics.

Teaching Method

The success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method in having students learn to read and write—learn science, social studies, art, every subject—and be kinder, less angry, less prejudiced.

Literature & Poetry

Discussing many great works of poetry and prose. Criticism, wrote Eli Siegel compactly, is showing “a good thing as good, a bad thing as bad, and a middling thing as middling.”

Love

Aesthetic Realism describes the purpose of love—”to like the world honestly through another person.” What does this mean—and what interferes with it in the lives of men and women today?

Mind

The way Aesthetic Realism sees mind differs from every other approach in the importance it gives to how an individual sees the world.

National Ethics

What honest criteria can we use to be good critics of ethics on the national and international levels?

Racism: Cause & Solution

The Aesthetic Realism understanding of contempt as the cause of racism, and the place of aesthetics in respecting, pleasurably, people different from oneself.

Eli Siegel Day in Baltimore

Talks given on August 16, 2002, Eli Siegel’s Centenary, placing Mr. Siegel and Aesthetic Realism, his work, in terms of world culture and history.

Aesthetic Realism Itself

Read Eli Siegel’s explanation of Aesthetic Realism as a study in three parts:
1. Liking the World;
2. The Opposites; and
3. The Meaning of Contempt.

Archive

Listing of all issues of TRO online.